On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:19:49AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.26
> > tags 416063 - patch
> 
> Would you mind explaining?
> 
> The patch solves two issues:
> - inconsistency between documentation and behaviour:
>      You can read the following in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf:
>      # most - Add all framebuffer, acpi, filesystem, and harddrive drivers.
>      As it happens, most does *not* add all framebuffer drivers

yeah none at all, fixed in latest git.
the patch was not ok as we don't want to have another hardcoded list
to maintain, just added all the fb modules on one go, see

f40e826287d2776094f48302c196652f2ba8326b
  hook-functions: MODULES=most add all fb modules per default
http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=summary

> - workaround the lack of dependency on intel_agp for intelfb.
>      Without the workaround, you can't have intel_agp loaded before
>      intelfb without *not* using video=intelfb syntax, thus losing
>      /dev/fb device creation.

that looks more like a kernel bug,
also intelfb should just work fine if not on agp.
or are you saying there are missing symbols there?

still it leaves the question if and how the agp modules
should land on initramfs.
cc'ing fb expert. 

thanks for pinging on that

-- 
maks



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